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Most Read Articles from Last Week – February 8

Pornstars Get Physical with Eroticart’s 3D Printing (NSFW)
Have you heard the saying among consumer technology fans that no new technology can truly make it to the mainstream until users find some way to use it for porn, or for sex? It has been true for DVDs …


Free 3D Printable of the Week: 3D Fractals
This week’s free, 3D printable model comes via Sketchfab’s own Victor Tissot, who has created a complete folder of 3D printable fractals. To do so, Victor followed an Instructable from designer Don W…


Hero Forge Brings Custom 3D Printed Miniatures to the Table
Last year, Hero Forge rolled the dice on their new business idea, launching a Kickstarter campaign for a service that would allow users to easily design and 3D print custom miniatures for role playing…


Skin and Bones: The Low-Cost Flexy Hand 3D Printed Prosthetic
UK-based Gyrobot Limited is a mechanical design consulting company with its own 3D printing facility, with which they focus on using FDM to 3D print concept models, end-use parts, functional prototype…


Bringing Closed-Loop Control to Desktop 3D Printing
There are people in this world that push the boundaries and strive for better on a daily basis. Miguel Sanchez is one of those people. One of the most frustrating hassles in desktop 3D printing is whe…


Make Your Own 3D(ollar) 3D Scanner
Yes, that’s correct, a $3.00 scanner. A recent post on Hackaday detailed the clever, and almost embarrassingly inexpensive 3D scanner project called the 3D(ollar) Scanner. Hackaday member Joshua Cr…


Meet the Einscan-S, A New White Light 3D Scanner on Kickstarter
After building and testing a number of prototypes, testing the scanning algorithm, Hangzhou, China-based Shining 3D has optimized the UI of their Einscan-S 3D scanner and is ready for Kickstarter, wit…


ColorFabb Releases Advanced Carbon Fiber Composite 3D Printing Filament
Innovation at colorFabb rarely slows down. Ever since the Dutch filament manufacturer formalized its collaboration with plastics giant Eastman Chemicals, and its extensive list of exclusive polymers, …


New Monthly 3D Printing Advisory Service From SmarTech
It’s very difficult to find reliable market information about desktop 3D printing. Every day, there are new stories, and some are more similar to each other than others. It’s hard to tell what company…


3DRacers is Racing on Indiegogo to Change Toys and 3D Printing Forever
Those who read 3DPI regularly know that I am a big fan of 3D Racers, the 3D printed, Arduino-based, smartphone-controlled, open-source, smart-toy car game. And that long list of composite attributes s…